Mitten.



No. 70|,91`5L Patentedv lune I0, |902.l

C. C. PRATT.

MITTEN.

(Application lled Sept. 12,' 1901.)

(No Moutel.) l

UNITED STATESV PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. PRATT, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-'THIRDS TOHARRISON'W. MERRILL, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, AND JOSEPH E. METCALF, OFKANSAS CITY, KANSAS. i 'l MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7o1,931, 1ated June 1o,1902.

Application filed September 12, 1901. Serial N- '75,129. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. PRATT, a citizen of the United States,residing-at Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mittens, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to mittens, and more especially to that classrmadefrom a single Io piece of material, my object being toproduce a mittenwhich can be manufactured quickly and easily and at a very low cost.

To this end the. invention consists in certain novel and peculiarfeatures of construe.-

I 5 tion and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter described andclaimed, and in order that it may be fully understoodreference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a planview of the blank.

2o Fig. 2 is a side view of the mitten as completed.

In the said drawings, 1 2 designate the two side or body portions of theblank and mitten, the same being straight at their lower 2 5 ends andapproximately semicircular at their upper ends. The portion 2 ,is formedwith a recess 3 and just above said recess with an approximat'elysemicircular projection 4.. Portion 1 is provided with a thumb-piece 5to 3o register withrecess 3 and with a recess 6 just above, wherein theprojection 4 is adapted to fit. Portion 1 is also provided with athumbflap 7, which' is similar to thumb-piece 5, eX- cept that it isdetached at its inner end from the body portion 1 by the formation ofthe recess 6, as shown clearly in Fig. l, the junction of the thumb-ilapwith the thumb-piece being indicatedby the centrally-located foldline 8.

In completing the mitten the blank is first folded or doubled on thecentral dotted line l9. Thumb-Hap 7 is then folded back upon thumbpiece5 along the dotted line 8, and its inner curved end ts snugly in therecess 3. Finally, projection 4. is folded down uponl body portion 2 andinto recess 6 upon the dotted line 10. The meeting edges of the blankare then stitched together from the wrist end 12 to the base of thethumb-piece 5, from which point mittens can be manufactured from asingle piece of material which conform to the shape' of the hand andwhich are of great strength and durability because at the rentrant anglebetween the thumb and body portion there is no seam running to the tipof the thumb, a seam which is invariably one of the rst to rip inmittens.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-` 1. A mitten, constructed of a singlepiece of material, and'consisting oftwo portions adapted to be foldedlongitudinally one upon the other, one having a curved recess, athumbpiece, and a thumb-nap integrally united to the inner margin of thethumb-piece, and having a rounded inner end produced by the formation ofsaid recess, the other portion having a recess to receivethe innerrounded end of said iiap and a projection to enter the recess of thefirst named portion, stitches uniting the edges of said portions fromtheir lower margins to the ymeetingl point of said thumb piece and flap,stitches uniting the rounded inner end of the thumb-flapnto the edge ofthe recessed portionjin which the rounded inner end of vsaidthpumb-lapfits, and stitches uniting theedges of 'said' portions around theirforward ends and the rounded projection and recess, in which saidprojection fits, to the junction with the thu mb, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

2. A mitten constructed of a single piece of material and consisting oftwo portions having their lower ends straight and their having a recess,a thumb-piece having a rounded outer end, and a thumb-lap having arounded outer end and integrally united to the thumb-piece at the innermargin 0E the latter, and having a rounded inner end produced in theformation of said recess, the other portion having a recess to receivethe inner rounded end of said ap and a projection to enter the recess ofthe first-named portion, stitches uniting the edges of said portionsfrom their lower margins to the meeting points of said thumb piece andiiap, stitches uniting the rounded inner end of the thumb1ap to theportion containing the recess in which the rounded inner end of saidthumb-Hap ts, and stitches uniting the edges of said portions aroundtheir semicircuiar ends and around the projection and recess to thejunction with the thumb, al1 arranged substantially as and for thepurpose set forth. In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in thepresence of tWo Witnesses.

CHARLES C. PRATT. Vitnesses:

G. Y. THORPE, R. R. JOHNSTON.

